14‘J THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. VI. 1477, and even in his will dated 1496, leaving a provi sion for the completion of that which he had not found time to bring to a close. 1 The patience of the Perugians ■would be strange indeed, were it not for a passage in one of the council records of 1469, which explains their equanimity. In the course of his differences with the Priori, Bonfigli threatened to throw up his engagement, if certain conditions, upon which he insisted, were not fulfilled. Had Bonfigli been considered by his townsmen as an artist easily replaced by others, his threats might have been ridiculed; but the Perugians really admired him; they declared that the frescos of the chapel were the greatest ornament to the city; and they believed that, were they not finished with equal talent and success, an ignominious stain would be cast upon them. 2 3 Bonfigli's claim was therefore conceded. Nor can we be surprised even now, that such should have been the result. Under the new agreement he painted the funeral of S. Louis, and the siege of Perugia by Totila, with the death and burial of S. Ercolano, on the wall facing the Crucifixion, and, on the remaining spaces, the translation of the saint to S. Pietro. Large portions of the Consecration have scaled away; still the Pope may be seen enthroned giving his blessing to S. Louis, a monk near the latter, and part of a car dinal by the former; but the best preserved bit is the head of an aged friar in a peristyle to the left. It is easier, however, to judge of Bonfigli’s power from the next episode; of the merchant whose mofiey and goods had been lost in a storm at sea; whose prayer to S. Louis being heard, he recovered the gold and silver in the en trails of a fish purchased on the market place. 2 A broader style in the treatment of drapery, good proportion, a care- 1 lb. 13G. 2 lb. 135. 3 One sees a fisherman receiving money for the fish, a monk kneel ing at a stand on which the fisli lies with a large purse near it, per sons looking on at the miracle, a city in the distance with a sea in which two ships are floating, and an apparition of S. Louis in the sky.